Questioning Christianity
Tim Keller has always been a meaningful thinker for me. You may recall (if you’ve read here for a while now) that he passed away in May of this year…. Read more »
Category: Books
Words for Wednesday
One of my favorite lines, from the movie Gettysburg: “We’ve got grievances.” Don’t we all? But here I am, getting ready for another lighting trip to the States — there… Read more »
The Spiritual Exchange
I’ve found Richard Powers’s The Overstory quite refreshing so far. Up to this point, it’s been short stories about people, but looking at the table of contents, I see that… Read more »
A Few Short Notes
I put my heart into finishing Momaday’s House Made of Dawn by its due date, and it continued to baffle me. It was a beautifully written book as far as… Read more »
Next Up: Richard Powers
The Pulitzer run has sputtered lately. Part of it may be my extreme busyness (although that’s a bit of an exaggeration), or it may just be that the quality of… Read more »
Next Up: N. Scott Momaday
Chalk this one up to randomness — I finally finished The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, and the library is closed for one more day, so I take a… Read more »
Getting Easier as I Go
If you’ve read some of my stuff before, you might have seen a few pieces on Christianity and the Bible. Out of over a thousand posts, this will be the… Read more »
Next Up: Oscar Hijuelos
So I’m back to the “Next Up” format for now. Robert Warren Penn’s All the King’s Men was an excellent book — as can be expected of most (but not… Read more »
Next Up: Robert Penn Warren
I’ve been busy enough not to have gotten to this, but if you were paying attention, I finished Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad a few days back… Read more »
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Two words come to mind when I think of this book: Incredibly creative. Egan weaves the lives of her characters so effortlessly that, although it appears to be all over… Read more »